TITLE: Leaf trait sampling protocol for SECO

TITLE: Leaf trait sampling protocol for SECO
DATE: 2025-01-22
AUTHOR: John L. Godlee
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At the start of the SECO project, we had the idea that we would
sample leaf traits across our field sites to help constrain models
of carbon cycle processes. I wrote a protocol with a PhD student at
the University of Edinburgh, Matt Rees, with guidance on how to
collect leaves from a representative sample of trees at each site,
with the aim of calculating realistic community-weighted means of
the leaf trait values that would be useful to the modelling team.

[SECO project]: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/seco-project/

In the end, this protocol was only rolled out at a couple of sites
in southern Africa, as the project went in a different direction
quite early on.

I'm going to host the protocol here so anybody can use it.

[here](https://johngodlee.xyz/files/seco_leaf_traits/seco_leaf_trait
s.zip)